Ms. Shaheen’s retirement will set off a high-stakes fight for an open seat in a state where she has been a leading political ...

While the intent behind diversity and quota initiatives sounds good, they raise concerns about fairness, effectiveness and ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

Brenda Haywood, a former member of Nashville's Metro Council, was 14 years old in 1965 when civil rights activists were ...

The congregation at Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church will divert their funds towards Black-owned businesses in protest ...

Cotton, who is chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he had no idea what was in the files and that he had total ...

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is denying an accusation from conservative pundit Tucker Carlson that he worked to block the release ...

Jackson finished second in the Democratic primary to Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who would go on to lose the 1988 presidential election to George H.W. Bush. But Jackson’s strong results ...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott did start as a one-day boycott of city buses Dec. 5, 1955. But the organizer — the Montgomery ...

If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...

As Roanoke plans major upgrades to Washington Park, tensions linger over the city's history of urban planning in majority ...